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Much ado has been made over President Obama’s remarks at the recent National Prayer Breakfast, namely his comparison between the Christian Crusades and the racism of the Jim Crow South and the heinous tactics of ISIS. Christians are outraged, as are most conservatives. Even MSNBC‘s Andrea Mitchell found the President’s condescending (and, it turns out, inaccurate) history lesson in poor taste, coming as it did mere days after a Jordanian pilot was burned alive at the hands of Muslim extremists.Needless to say, enough ink and airtime and bandwidth have been expended excoriating the President on this point. So much so that a second and perhaps more fundamentally problematic issue with his speech has gone unaddressed. A good deal of the President’s talk revolved around the sacred importance of religious liberty. He praised it as a bastion of democratic society and a cornerstone of America’s constitutional order. He lauded the good work done by those who dedicate their lives to caring for “the least of these.” He had a great deal to say about the value of humility, the importance of heeding God’s commandments, and the responsibility to speak out against agents of hate, oppression, and religious perversion. From the speech:“And, first, we should start with some basic humility. I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt – not being so full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks only to us, and doesn’t speak to others, that God only cares about us and doesn’t care about others, that somehow we alone are in possession of the truth.

Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth – our job is to be true to Him, His word, and His commandments. And we should assume humbly that we’re confused and don’t always know what we’re doing and we’re staggering and stumbling towards Him, and have some humility in that process. And that means we have to speak up against those who would misuse His name to justify oppression, or violence, or hatred with that fierce certainty. No God condones terror. No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives, or the oppression of those who are weaker or fewer in number.

And so, as people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those who try to distort our religion – any religion – for their own nihilistic ends. And here at home and around the world, we will constantly reaffirm that fundamental freedom – freedom of religion – the right to practice our faith how we choose, to change our faith if we choose, to practice no faith at all if we choose, and to do so free of persecution and fear and discrimination.”

To read the above words, you’d think that the President is a man who in his own life and in his own administration accords great respect and deference to religious faith and those who embrace it. You’d think he is a man conscious of his own limitations, humble in the face of what he doesn’t clearly understand and hesitant to use his bully pulpit to impose his own religious beliefs upon others. As with so much of what our President says, however, his actions belie his words. In the same way that his promise of “if you like your health care, you can keep it” was a semantic manipulation that only a lawyer could muster, his proclamations of respect for religious liberty are dubious at best.

The President talks a good game, but when you examine his actions with regard to religious liberty, it’s quickly apparent that his talk is cheap. Unless you subscribe to his particular brand of “faith,” don’t expect this President to lift a pen or a phone in defense of your religious liberty. What you can expect is a man determined to eradicate every last vestige of orthodox religious influence from the public square.

In his book, The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis describes the watered-down understanding of the Christian God that prevails in contemporary secular society:

“By the goodness of God we mean nowadays almost exclusively His lovingness; and in this we may be right. And by Love, in this context, most of us mean kindness – the desire to see others than the self happy; not happy in this way or in that, but just happy. What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, ‘What does it matter so long as they are contented?’ We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who, as they say, liked to see young people enjoying themselves’, and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, ‘a good time was had by all'”

So much of what our President and his ideological ilk mean when they refer to religious faith is contained in the sentiment above. For them, the only kind of acceptable faith and the only kind of acceptable God are those that offer uncritical affirmation. This brand of faith posits only one commandment: If it feels good and can be made to sound “nice,” do it. Any conception of God that includes uncomfortable moral prescriptions is not merely rejected, but targeted for eradication through litigation and cultural warfare. The President invokes a spirit of religious humility when in reality he could hardly be less tolerant. He is an influential agent of what Mary Eberstadt of the Ethics and Public Policy Center calls “the new intolerance.”

President Obama speaks of humility; he pays lip service to compassion and understanding while practicing an insidious form of civil persecution and oppression of those who dare to put their faith into practice. As Eberstadt writes:

“For there is no mercy for putting butchers and bakers and candlestick makers in the legal dock for refusing to renounce their religious beliefs – but that’s what the new intolerance does. There is no mercy in stalking and threatening Christian pastors for being Christian pastors, or in casting out social scientists who turn up unwanted facts, or in telling a flight attendant she can’t wear a crucifix, or in persecuting organizations that do charitable work – but the new intolerance does these things, too. . . . Above all, there is no mercy in slandering people by saying that religious believers “hate” certain people when in fact they do not; or that they are “phobes” of one stripe or another when in fact they are not. This, too, happens all over public space these days, with practically no pushback from anyone. This, too, is the new intolerance at work.”

I am reminded of President Obama’s infamous remark about bitter Midwesterners clinging to guns and religion. Despite later attempts to clarify his meaning (as usual, everyone misunderstood him and needed re-educating), he made the comments while speaking to a group of progressive liberal supporters in San Francisco, and his meaning was crystal clear: Religion – at least the kind of religion that still embraces ideas of moral absolutes, human sin, immutable truths and the like – is a crutch for the ignorant and disenfranchised, a crutch that needs to be replaced by an ever-evolving social consensus that defines what is politically correct, supported by the benevolent arms of Uncle Sam.. President Obama doesn’t identify with the faith of people like that; he sees them as lost sheep that need to be herded back into the Big Government fold, re-educated to believe that Christ came into the world and died on a cross so that everyone could be free to follow their bliss wherever it may lead.

The contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act is a reflection of this idea. The President and his ideological cohorts view free contraception as a fundamental, inalienable right; call it a penumbra or emanation of the Declaration’s “pursuit of happiness.” Anyone who disagrees with this notion or takes issue with the morality of preventing conception or terminating the life of an unborn child is an enemy of liberty that must be thwarted.

By now we’re all familiar with the cases. In response to the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act, certain entities petitioned the Obama Administration for a religious exemption. Hobby Lobby wanted an exemption from four of 20 varieties of contraception. Conestoga Wood Specialties and the Little Sisters of the Poor wanted nothing to do with offering contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees due to strong religious objections to such technology. They didn’t want to pay for it and they didn’t want the government paying for it for them. And they didn’t want extra time, as New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan famously said, to figure out how to violate their consciences.

President Obama refused to accept this. His religious humility wasn’t adequate to imagine that some people believe that God designed sex for the purpose of procreation and that preventing the creation of life, or worse, terminating a newly conceived life, is a grave sin. He was unable to imagine that an employer who holds these beliefs would be troubled by financing the commission of such sins by others. He couldn’t understand why Catholic nuns might have a problem with the morning-after pill, or any pill at all that prevents conception from occurring or terminates it after the fact. (Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising considering that Mr. Obama twice voted against “born alive” legislation while serving in the Illinois senate).

In light of this inability to identify with those whose religious faith leads them to different conclusions than his own, the President branded these petitioners as foot soldiers in the Progressive-manufactured “war on women” and took them to court. So much for humility. Thankfully, the twelve justices that sit on the highest judicial bench in the land have a bit more appreciation for religious liberty than the current Commander in Chief, and the case for religious exemption to the contraception mandate was vindicated.

How any person of integrity could execute the above actions and then stand before an audience of religious leaders and claim spiritual solidarity with them is beyond comprehension, but that’s exactly what President Obama did. It’s what he does all the time, as consistency, transparency, and honesty don’t seem to rank high on his list of political priorities.

Ultimately, the Prayer Breakfast speech was vintage Obama: A hefty dose of professorial lecturing about the sins of the majority (re. Western, white, Christian) as a means of downplaying the barbarous acts of a perceived minority (remember, to Progressives criticism of Islam is tantamount to racism). Offensive? Absolutely. Insensitive, given the atrocities being committed by ISIS on a daily basis? Yes. Surprising? Unfortunately no.

If Obama had spoken honestly, he would have talked more about his admiration for the separation between Church and State (at least as he understands it to be). He would have told the audience that he thinks religion is swell, so long as any and all vestiges of faithful conviction are checked at the front door. He would have explained that his understanding of God’s love requires an uncritical embrace of the social and political agendas of LGBTQs and feminists at the expense of historically venerated, traditional conceptions about marriage and family.

This is what he should have said because this is how he really feels, at least so far as his actions indicate. In his eyes, the faithful remnant in today’s secular progressive America only clings to guns and religion because government has let them down. The sooner Big Brother can realize its dream of cultivating a nation of Julia‘s, the sooner the need for old time religion and all its pesky notions about God and morality and man’s ultimate purpose will be relegated to the ash bin of history.

Erica Wanis is a consultant for the John Jay Institute’s Center for a Just Society. She resides in Burke, VA, with her husband and two children.

Why do Americans allow their government to continually spend much more than it has?

Why have Americans allowed a private bank to destroy the dollar?

Why does one private bank have almost total control over the U.S. economic system?

Why do the people of our nation elect and reelect reprobates to office?

Why do Americans allow their government to spy on everything that they do?

Why do Americans allow government to understate inflation to rob them and overstate employment to deceive them?

Why does the American government prejudicially and selectively choose to enforce or not enforce laws?

Why does the American government pretend that Islam is not a world threat?

Why does the American government allow Iran and N. Korea to develop nuclear weapons that are being devolved to destroy America?

Why has our government not protected us from the threat of an EMP attack?

Why will our government not enforce our borders?

Why do we live in a surveillance state if Islam is not our enemy and the war against terrorism has been won?

Why do most Americans believe that homosexuality is a normal lifestyle when it is obviously abnormal and proves to be deadly?

Why do half the marriages in America end in divorce?

Why do most people shack up when they should be getting married?

Why do woman in America choose to abort their babies?

Why would blacks with sound minds allow themselves to be manipulated by black racists?

Why do blacks overwhelmingly vote for the political party that enslaved them and that still enslaves them to the masters of the government plantation?

Why do most black men abandon their children?

Why is most everything on TV about sex, violence and the abnormal?

Why is porn half the Internet traffic that is not SPAM?

Why do most preachers in America not preach the gospel, and why do most Christians go to these churches?

Why do Christian leaders teach works and humanism when the Bible teaches faith in Jesus Christ?

Why do Christian leaders teach mysticism when the founders of the faith taught biblical doctrine?

Why will most preachers in America not preach about the second coming of Jesus?

Why do Christian leaders in America claim that unregenerate man is basically good when God says that none are good?

Why do American Christians make their pastor an idol? Why do Christians support TBN?

Why does Joel Osteen have the biggest church in the country?

Why are Christian book stores full of heretical books?

Why is the heretical “Jesus Calling” Part one – Part two one of the top books in Christianity and why is the SBC sweetheart Beth Moore promoting this new age mystical clap trap?

Why are Christian men allowing woman to feminize their churches?

Why is Wal-Mart the largest employer in the country? Why is Kelly Temporary Services the second largest?

Why are politicians still pretending that global warming is the big threat to the earth when the earth has not warmed in almost two decades?

Why do Americans allow DUI check points that consistently arrest or ticket 95 percent of the citizens for something other than DUI?

Why are the local police militarized? Why are there 50,000 swat raids in America annually?

Why does America have the highest incarceration rate in the world?

Why are inner cities in America controlled by gangs?

Why do Americans allow their schools to indoctrinate their children in Humanism and Marxism?

Why is sex being pushed in our grade schools and morning after pills being made available to children at drugstores without parents even knowing?

Why do parents not protect their children from the most destructive influences in our society?

Why are Americans obsessed with sports, especially on Sunday?

Why is America the second fattest people in the world (Mexico is number one)?

Why do Americans use more illegal drugs than any nation on earth?

Why do Americans use legal mind alternating drugs more than any other nation on earth?

The list showing that America is becoming a nation of reprobate minds can be almost as endless as our news headlines. If you agree, don’t worry so much about some specific judgment coming upon America, although they may come. Those with reprobate minds bring continual judgment on America through their own insane destructive choices. How do you turn a nation around when the reprobate minds say that they do not care about God – just give us more bread and circuses? No nation can survive when the majority have been given over to a reprobate mind. ~ Don Koenig, from his article, Many exhibit insanity because God gave them over to a reprobate mind

“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dreadful judgments: sword and famine and wild beasts and plague–to kill its men and their animals!” Ezekiel 14:21

(Edward Payson)
National judgments are always the consequence of national sins. It is indispensably necessary to the perfection of God’s moral government, that it should extend to nations and communities, as well as to individuals. This, I conceive, is too evident to require proof; for how could God be considered as the moral Governor of the world–if nations and communities were exempt from His government?

(Matthew Henry)
God has a variety of sore judgments with which to punish sinful nations–and He has them all at His command and inflicts which nations He pleases. God often chastises sinful nations by bringing the sword of war upon them–and He gives it its commission and orders what execution it shall do.

(John Calvin)
War is one of God’s judgments.

(William Greenhill)
It is God who calls out the sword, and causes it to come: “When I bring the sword upon a land!” Ezekiel 33:2. He is the Lord of hosts, and commissions armies to make invasions where He please. Eminent wickedness brings eminent judgments. Wars do not come upon any nation by accident–but by the righteous providence of God.

(Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
I regard the two World Wars which we have experienced in the 20th century, as God’s punishment of the apostasy of the last century. I see no other adequate explanation.

(Augustine)
Nothing happens, unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen.

(Thomas Watson)
Sinners may oppose God’s ways–but not His wrath.

(James Durham)
Let us stay our faith here–that our Lord is still working in all these confusions. And when matters are turned upside down as to human appearance–our blessed Lord knows well what He is doing, and will make all things most certainly, infallibly, and unalterably to work for His own glory, and for the good of His people.

“There is a growing tendency all over the world to disguise the
real grounds upon which ‘non-conformists’ are imprisoned.”
— Peter Benenson, “The Forgotten Prisoners”, 28 May 1961.[1]

“Any person who is physically restrained (by imprisonment or
otherwise) from expressing (in any form of words or symbols)
an opinion which he honestly holds and which does not advocate
or condone personal violence.”
— The article defining the term Prisoner of Conscience.[1]

“Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the
emancipation of the slaves. It is now for man to insist upon
the same freedom for his mind as he has won for his body.”
— Peter Benenson, “The Forgotten Prisoners”.[1]

OPEN your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. There are several million such people in prison—by no means all of them behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains—and their numbers are growing. The news paper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelings of disgust all oer the world could be united into common action, something effective could be done.

Article 18.—
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion: this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom either alone or in company with others in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.Article 19.—
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

There is at present no sure way of finding out how many countries permit their citizens to enjoy these two fundamental freedoms. What matters is not the rights that exist on paper in the Constitution, but whether they can be exercised and enforced in practice. No government, for instance, is at greater pains to emphasize its constitutional guarantees than the Spanish, but it fails to apply them.

There is a growing tendency all over the world to disguise the real grounds upon which “non-conformists” are imprisoned. In Spain, students who circulate leaflets calling for the right to hold discussions on current affairs are charged with “military rebellion.” In Hungary, Catholic priests who have tried to keep their choir schools open have been charged with “homosexuality.” These cover-up charges indicate that governments are by no means insensitive to the pressure of outside opinion. And when world opinion is concentrated on one weak spot, it can sometimes succeed in making a government relent. For instance, the Hungarian poet Tibor Dery was recently released after the formation of “Tibor Dery committees” in many countries; and Professor Tierno Galvan and his literary friends were acquitted in Spain this March, after the arrival of some distinguished foreign observers…

Western culture as a whole, and the United States in particular, has had a tremendous amount of light from God, and experienced many blessings from His hand. Yet, this culture seems intent upon continuing on its path to self-destruction. A few thoughts from the Christian worldview (while we are still allowed, we would hope, to express them).

If you believed some of the Christian revival hype that was going around this year, you might have been lead to believe that by Thanksgiving our nation would be in sack cloth and ashes humbling themselves and praying and repenting so God would heal our land. That is what some Christian media hucksters tried to sell you, but reality turned out quite differently. It seems that the camp-outs for Black Friday that will be ushering in the commercialism of Christmas will supersede any post Thanksgiving national repentance.

There have been Christian rallies this year that were advertised as the kick off for this American revival but they brought little response. The Billy Graham message, “My Hope for America” on November 7th, was to be the big event that would really get this revival going. Therefore, I have to ask, have you seen any evidence of a revival starting anywhere in America? Let me know if you have seen any real revival taking place across our land because I see no signs of it.

Oh, I know we have those Charismatics on TV that are preaching about revival taking place wherever they go, but it is always the same people who are getting revived in these continuous false revivals. I have heard about their revival claims for 40 years. Heck, if you believe the Charismatic media hucksters, they must have revived Africa ten times over by now. However, if you look at reality, most of their converts in Africa have a hybrid Christianity that mixes Charismatic signs and wonders hype with twisted scriptures added to African traditional spiritualism. It is easy to claim Christian converts when confessing Christianity by many Africans means putting new names on old spirits and pagan practices and going into an emotional altered state.

It is much the same in Charismatic America, except they mix Jesus with New Age spiritualism. There are those that are always claiming to have a prophetic word from the Lord about everything, but their words and works promote themselves or produce money in their own pocket. Revival of false Christianity is not the revival that we need in America. I have had enough experiences with these Word of Faith believers over the years to know that they fall in two main categories. There are the self promoting hucksters and there that are those caught up into endless delusions.

Do we have any evidence that Americans are beginning to repent and revival is coming? There is more evidence to the contrary.

As I speak black youths are still roaming around cities looking for a victim that they can knock out with one punch. Other black mobs are looting stores and all of this lawlessness is downplayed by the perpetrators and the media as being some sort of game? It is not a game; it is murder and stealing. Black christian churches are so repentant about this violence and lawlessness that the pastors will not say a word of correction from the pulpit or to the media, and black American parents are so repentant that most do not supervise, correct, or teach morality to their children. I see no revival in the black community.

Americans as a whole are so repentant of their own ways that they allow the destruction of the family unit to continue. I believe homosexual marriage will be the law in 16 states by Jan 1st. You can’t just blame federal government if the majority of people in our states are going to vote to legalize and sanction this abomination. Virtually all couples now shack up together before they get married (if they ever do). Many children are not allowed to be born by their mother and almost half of the children in America are brought up by a single parent. I see no revival with John and Jane Doe.

If God’s people are supposed to lead the revival you might think that they might start with the Christian media and purge out the heretics and those endorsing destructive behavior. Instead, once respected teachers are now losing all credibility by aligning with the perverted and by endorsing false teachers. By hobnobbing with the perverted and the heretics, often in the name of Christian unity or patriotism, they have allowed heretical fringe teachings to come into the mainstream. Now, the whole loaf is slowly being leavened with doctrines of demons and unstable men and women and few will take a stand against anything. I see no revival in Christian leadership.

If there were any revival in our land, you might think that congregations would hold certain Christian pastors accountable for their aberrant teaching and the ungodly associations that they even allow in their own pulpits. I see no revival in our congregations.

Repenting in blue jeans and marijuana ashes and choosing not to rock the boat that is going down the way of Willow Creek and its many tributaries is not going to forestall judgment on America.

The “revival” in America seems to be well on its way to change a democratic republic into an atheist theocracy if you ask me. With the removal of the filibuster in the Senate, many more socialist atheist judges will be appointed that will legislate from the bench and force all to recite their own pledge of allegiance. It just might read – I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Socialists States of America, and to the Social Democratic Atheist Party for which it stands, one Nation under the Potentate, with oppression and injustice for all dissenters.

This stunning Christian revival in America is likely to bring about the following unless something worse happens first, and that is even more likely:

The Constitution will be changed to reflect the collective consensus of the Socialist Atheist Democrats (SAD)

There will be a revolt by some Christians and conservatives. The best outcome is the divorce of some conservative states the worst is a civil war

A domestic militia that will enforce a police state mainly through nationalized and militarized local police forces

Guns will be confiscated and there will be armed militia on every block to keep law and order

Any American foreign military will totally be under international control

Amnesty for criminals except for political prisoners and violent felons – drugs will be legal and taxed

Most sex crimes will be decriminalized

Forced re-education (indoctrination) camps

The end of most of the middle class

America will default on its debt and international bankers will dictate economic policy and taxes

The living standard will become about equal to that of Mexico

Government will control everyone and everything. They will use electronic surveillance and snitches to bring about total control

Mexico and Canada will build a border fence to keep Americans out

For all practical purposes America will only have a one party system (SAD) – anything like the Tea Party will be outlawed

The economic crash will force America to disarm. America will no longer be a world leader

Israel and Jews will be hated in the cities of America and Jews will find it necessary to immigrate to Israel

The Med Union (now EU, North Africa, and Middle East), Russia and allies, China and allies, and India and allies will run the world

Christianity will only be allowed in state approved churches and the Christian message will be watered down to accommodate other so-called paths to God. There will be no proselytizing. Evangelical Christians will be persecuted

Parents will not be allowed to teach religion, sex education, or anything that is not politically correct to their children. Violations will be seen as child abuse. Children will be encouraged to report any such abuse.

There will be no tax deductions to support anything that is religious based

Home schooling will not be allowed

For those still expecting some great revival in America I would like to ask, revival to what? Revival to the ways of our past that brought us to where we are now? Revival to only then be taken away in the Rapture? Revival to give the gospel of salvation to a world that has already largely rejected it? Revival so that we can have more wealth and materialism in America? Revival for revival sake like many of our churches have?

What would God have to do to get Americans to repent of their sins and make Him Lord of their life? Wars do not work, we have had wars for centuries. Storms do not work, we saw that in Sandy and Katrina. Earthquakes and tidal waves do not work, we saw that in Indonesia, Hatti, and Japan. Anyone see any mass repentance and great revival coming as a result of these recent events?

Unbelievers will explain away most anything as a natural or man caused event. It seems that the only thing that is going to get America or most nations in the world to take notice that there is a God in Heaven that actively determines events on the earth, is something like what happened in Egypt in the days before Exodus.

In those days, God determined that He would bring out Israel by sending ten judgments on a very defiant nation. By the time Egypt was all but destroyed they could not deny that God was involved, but they still chose to rebel against Him by attacking the people who He chose to deliver. Something like that will have to happen again before America and the world in general will even believe that God is actively involved in the world. Even then most would not repent.

Come to think of it, that is what the tribulation is all about. The role of the two witnesses will be much like that of Moses and Aaron. The testimony of the two witnesses will not even bring national repentance but their message will bring some individual repentance. In spite of all the hype you hear about some great American revival, it probably will take tribulation events to produce any.

When Barack Obama ran for President, he promised to “fundamentally change” America. Over the last five years or so, the American people have gotten a pretty good idea of exactly what those words meant. We’ve seen that President Obama’s vision of America is one in which we are entirely dependent upon government, and government is entirely unaccountable to us. In Obama’s America, political appointees and unelected bureaucrats operate outside the law and without accountability, the Executive branch picks and chooses which laws to follow and which to ignore, and religious liberty is held hostage to the forces of political correctness and social “progress.”
The latest battleground in the President’s campaign for fundamental change is the military, where chaplains and other persons of faith are finding themselves increasingly under pressure to subordinate their religious consciences to the dictates of tolerance and diversity. In response, the Family Research Council is heading up a campaign to increase legal protections for religious expression in the military, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are taking notice. From the Washington Times:“Rep. John Fleming, Louisiana Republican, proposed an amendment last month to the 2014 defense authorization bill that specifically protects the “actions and speech” of religious personnel, rather than just their “beliefs.” The third-term lawmaker said the amendment was needed because chaplains feel restricted in how they can pray and preach, and officers are being warned not to display their faith openly.
The Obama administration issued a statement opposing Mr. Fleming’s amendment, saying it limited the ability of commanders to address “potentially problematic speech and actions within their units” and would have a negative overall effect on military units. But the full House supported the amendment and a similar provision, co-sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, and Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, has been approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee.”
What kind of religious speech and actions does our President view as “potentially problematic?” Well, maybe an officer has a Bible sitting on his desk and one of his subordinates is an atheist and finds it offensive. Perhaps a commander elects to serve Chick-Fil-A at his promotion party and the gays in attendance are offended because it is a Christian-owned company. Or maybe there is a base-wide promotion of Operation Christmas Child and someone finds it objectionable that the children’s charity is affiliated with Billy Graham’s “Samaritan’s Purse” operation. In short, anything that anyone at any time might possibly find “offensive” is out. Religious speech is out, and overtly-religious activities are out. The only safe haven is the realm of the private – the realm of “personal beliefs.” In President Obama’s “fundamentally changed” America, everyone is free to believe what they want, but the minute you open your mouth you’re on Uncle Sam’s territory. Your rights stop where his authority starts.
Of course, the White House insists that they are great champions of religious liberty, but as usual this declaration is accompanied by a clever rhetorical caveat:“In a statement emailed to The Washington Times, Pentagon spokesman Nate Christensen stressed that the Defense Department celebrates religious diversity and that military personnel have the full right to exercise their religious beliefs, as long as doing so does not negatively affect the military’s mission or other individuals’ rights.”
Well, when your mission is the perpetual promotion of “diversity” (meaning anything and everything that is not white, male, heterosexual, or Christian) and your definition of individual “rights” allows for the censorship of anyone or anything that doesn’t affirm your progressive worldview, then there is little room left for religious exercise of any real substance.
Critics of the Family Research Council’s report on religious liberty claim that Christians in the military are overreacting. There is no war on religious freedom, they insist, and there is no specific targeting of Christians. On the contrary, if anything, Christians are the ones guilty of pushing their agenda: ”Jason Torpy, president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, said the complaints of hostility to religion in the military are in reality an example of ‘Christian privilege’ that leads to the religious oppression of non-Christians. ’From a position of alarmism, they have caused a lot of unnecessary fear and concern within and outside the military,’ said Mr. Torpy, an Iraq War veteran who identifies himself as a humanist. ‘They’ve pushed for Christian privilege under the guise of religious freedom.'”
Herein lies the rub. If you want to know what’s behind the growing antagonism towards religious expression in the military, it’s the belief that “diversity” requires radical and artificially imposed “equality.” Because a majority of religious believers in America are Christians, it is natural that instances of religious exercise are predominantly Christian. Christianity is by far the most “visible” faith in America; it’s the religion most intimately woven into this nation’s cultural fabric. But this simply won’t do in Obama’s America. Christianity is the religious nail that must be hammered down to the same level as all the others, Constitution be damned.
It is outrageous that the men and women who’ve dedicated their lives to the protection and defense of the Constitution are finding their most basic First Amendment liberties being curtailed. If there is any group that should resist the shackles of political correctness, it is the military. The U.S. military represents the greatest force for freedom this planet has ever known. Soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen have died by the millions fighting to protect the American way of life, including the free exercise of religion and the freedom of speech. We stand against governments who deny these liberties to their own people. We are freedom’s global evangelists. For the President and his ideological allies to attempt to change this is, indeed, an attempt to “fundamentally change”America.
Religious liberty is the reason the first colonists came to these shores. It is part of America’s heritage – embedded in our cultural DNA — and we abandon it at our peril. Freedom loving people on all sides of the aisle should come to the aid of our servicemen and women and stand up for their rights to worship and speak in accordance with the dictates of their consciences. If the White House succeeds in stripping our warriors of their fundamental freedoms, our own emasculation is sure to follow.CJS Blog: Zachary Gappa writes about the stifling of our boys in school, the money you can save by paying cash for surgery, a new way to help impoverished women give birth safely and more: Check out the CJS Blog

Ken Connor is an attorney and co-author of “Sinful Silence: When Christians Neglect Their Civic Duty” He is also Chairman of the Center for a Just Society. For more articles and resources from Mr. Connor and the Center for a Just Society, go to www.centerforajustsociety.org

If the Supreme Court of the United States of America decides to uphold the belief of Religious people on the grounds that they are right, then they establish themselves as the givers of the Natural Laws themselves, establishing for all time their unique and high office of Chief Potentate of all things lawful. They do, however, have a very important role of decisive governmental leadership. Are not the Laws of Nature’s God His laws, and not ours? Let us find ourselves on His side in deciding whether or not His laws are His or not. And, when establishing laws that are under the direction of Religious beliefs, let us know that we tread on the very ground of the human conscience with respect to what is perceivably right or wrong. When we do that as a people are we not placing on the souls of the people the requirement to follow us who are telling them what is right and wrong, instead of the God of their consciences? When and if a people, collectively or individually, decide what is right or wrong in their conscience, do they have the right to impose those beliefs on their fellow mankind? We know it is wrong to follow a group to do what is wrong, no matter how many are in that group. If we examine the case of the right of the wrong belief of one against the many outcries of the righteous belief of many, do we not make ourselves the object of ridicule from future critics who believe us to be wrong? For the sake of argument, when we pick and choose the Laws to which Nature’s God gives us individual fundamental freedoms, and leave other parts of the obvious Laws of that same God out of our governing processes, we need to re-think our positions religiously again, don’t we? If we, with one religion, depose the religious laws of another, under the classification of what is a “religious” or Natural Law of Nature’s God, do we not confuse ourselves to undo good and natural fundamental base-line structure of reason and thinking, if our religious position is therefore changing on an issue as a culture or people? Therefore, we are actually challenging God Himself as a people, are we not, by deciding to “decide” on the issue. If the fundamental inalienable rights of God are so easily known by all men, as pointed out in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, why then do we dote upon the changing of the simple rules, with respect to the absurd, when it is acknowledged by so many the world over by collective Prudence that, given our religious nature, even the very Bible which spells out as immoral acts as in the ten commandments, etc., we conclude that “man lying with man” is unnatural and evil in nature (Leviticus 18:22, Romans 1:27), unless our goal is to confuse to the point of bringing down our institutions of our very National Conscience? We do not even consider the understanding of why prostitution is the obvious defilement of the wholesome marriage union in the first place? Why do we have to go any further in the defense of the obvious destruction of the institution of moral marriages in this country? This exposes the very act for what it is in actuality. Would not the prophet Elijah pour out water again on the altar to show up the prophets of Baal, when God would show the people who is God? And if that fire consumed the very water when it fell, will not the people of this time capture all those who fundamentally seek to lead a whole nation away from worshiping what is right and true, when the right from wrong is exposed? Islam teaches to hate it’s enemies in it’s writings. Christianity teaches in it’s writings to love your enemies. Are those concepts differing? Yes. Is God for or against an issue? Should we be for or against what “Nature’s God” calls evil and unwholesome? Do we not now choose a religion, and what to follow? Are not “religious” forces at work to obtain our souls? Do we want to be burnt up with the water that will be licked up in the trench around the very altar of Elijah’s on the Mount of Decision? When we come as close to God’s fire as we have, we certainly will at least lose some of our hairs on our head that are all numbered by Him. Note this part of the epitaph of Thomas Jefferson:

“An Act for establishing religious Freedom.

Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free;

That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and therefore are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord, both of body and mind yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do,

That the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavouring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time;

That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical;

That even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness, and is withdrawing from the Ministry those temporary rewards, which, proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind;

That our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry,

That therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence, by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages, to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right,

That it tends only to corrupt the principles of that very Religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments those who will externally profess and conform to it;

That though indeed, these are criminal who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way;

That to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy which at once destroys all religious liberty because he, being of course judge of that tendency, will make his opinions the rule of judgement and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with, or differ from, his own;

That it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order;

And, finally, that Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them:

Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of Religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities. And though we well know that this Assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of Legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.”

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” ~Galatians 6:7

Today, those on the right have no clear values … that they will fight for. They have been brainwashed to believe that they must be nice and polite, and considerate of everyone else’s feelings. To confront issues directly is considered crass and politically incorrect. The lip service they pay to each new progressive insult is almost always approached from a political point of view. They somehow are incapable of understanding that it is our culture which is under attack, not our political establishments. They firmly believe that the next election will solve every problem, but only if we work and campaign a little harder and support candidate “y” instead of candidate “x.”

Meantime, the progressives incrementally advance upon our social institutions. Our schools, churches, media, workplaces, charitable organizations, youth organizations and others are now little more than satellite groups of, and tools for, the liberal agenda. Take great care! To say that out loud will get you accused of being racist, homophobic or worse. You may very well be sued and/or arrested for a hate crime. Take heart, though, if we elect the right politician next time, he or she will take care of it, by golly.

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]

Current Communist Goals

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

The American people have truly been “buried in Communism” by their own
politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties. One other thing to
remember, Karl Marx was stating in the Communist Manifesto that these planks
will test whether a country has become commmunist or not. If they are all in
effect and in force the country IS communist. Communism, but by any other
name…??

Deuteronomy 28 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:

3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7 “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

8 “The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

9 “The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. 10 Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. 11 And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.14 So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Note on the video: Although we should do our best to be prepared for an economic collapse and coming crisis’, for many, like myself, we cannot build up stock and store. Don’t lose heart, God will supply His children’s needs as He sees fit for His glory. We must be willing to endure hardship as He wills it for us. This is for His Kingdom and glory, not ours. Our rewards will be from His hand and are eternal. If martial law were to be declared by any U.S. president now that Obama has updated the NDAA the way he saw fit our stock and store may very well be taken out from under us. Trust in the Lord God Almighty to lead you and supply your every need.

Yuppers. Its not top dog Mitt Romney who is getting attacked by the liberal media but Rick Santorum. And for good reason, imo. Lately, Republicans have been a bit peeved with the medias’ turning of the waters in any which way they desire their listeners to float along. Perhaps they hope to snag a few unlearned Repubs and Indys into their increasingly rapid flow to vote for Romney-their choice candidate if ( and it isn’t such a big “if” this election year) they were to vote against their party line. Come to think of it, it may be an attempt to convince their own of whom to cast their vote for in the Republican party without outright leaving Obama to fend for himself. Don’t roll your eyes at that thought! I think Obama has made some enemies, especially after signing the National Defense Authorization Act which makes even them Dems official enemy combatants, along with all of the rest of us peons. I mean, have you seen the rightfully mad Maddow’s finger shaking at Obama?

Uh-oh! Trouble in Progressive Paradise.

Okay, so we know why Romney has a hedge around him keeping him safe from the liberal lippiness of his horrible hypocritical sins, which is, that he is the closest to their leftist ideals. He is a waffler and can easily be worked with on. Now, Santorum scares the hell out of them. Could it be that he is a Christian? No. Christian candidates aren’t all that fearsome unless they actually tend to work out those beliefs in the White House…oh. That’s it! Here is Santorum on Gay Marriage and Abortion:

Now that’s scary if you are a pro-death in the womb, alternative lifestyles advocate. Yes, as the lefties like to say about Christian political candidates: This man is just another far right wing religious fanatic! Fanatic, yes. And so should every Christian be to the point of such an accusation! Far right wing? That may be but that puts them on the anarchy side of the centrist U.S. Constitution position and that makes the statement not quite true. But its far better than the liberal left wingers who are so far left of the U.S. Constitution they’ve reached dictatorship, as evidenced by Czar Obama.

Sooo…it’s Santorum’s turn and the hits are below the belt which I take to mean that there’s a whole lotta fear goin’ on:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

So, are the UN member states doing enough to protect women, children, Jews, Christians, Hindus and homosexuals from human rights violations from a certain religious/political/military group? Especially now that the Arab Spring has become an Arab rude Awakening of dictatorships in the middle east and north Africa, will we see the UN work feverishly to stop the human rights violations that are on a scale never seen before?

1 Tim. 2:1-4

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” ~Noah Webster The History of the United States, 1832

Philippians 4:6-7

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

"The problem here isn't that God has abandoned anybody. The problem here is that we are abandoning Him. The problem here is that we have gotten ashamed of Him. The problem here is that, even though He providentially put us, in particular, in the context of a society where we were invited to enjoy the fruits that come from our submission to His will, we have, through a combination of willfulness, laziness, and indifference, let it slip away."
~ Alan Keyes speaking to Concerned Women for America, March 31, 2001

“Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

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If you know for sure you belong to the Lord, then you have nothing to worry about. Your challenge now is to live in such a way that your life serves as an example that attracts others to Him. If you’re not sure you’re His, you should hurry to make yourself so. Everyone who asks receives, all who seek will find, and to whoever knocks the door will be opened (Matt. 7:7-8). No one is refused, no one is excluded. All you have to do is to admit you’re a sinner, and ask Him to be your Savior and forgive your sins. He will send His Holy Spirit to show you what to do from there (Ephes. 1:13-14). The Church could disappear any day now, without a prior sign or warning, and those who are left behind will soon be living in a much less friendly world.
~Jack Kelley

“We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

Nationalistic patriotic constitutional conservatives really are a threat to these utopians dreamers that control much of the world and now America. They have plans for a totally controlled socialist one world government. Don’t be misled, all roads with the Far Left lead to a Borg like society with a more evolved mankind playing the role of God on earth. ~ Don Koenig

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I think almost half of Americans would still vote for Obama even if they were given absolute proof that he is not constitutionally eligible to be President and is a racist communist plant that really wants to bring America down. The reason I believe that, is because I think that a whole lot of people in America have already been indoctrinated into communist socialism and racism under the disguise of names like humanism, affirmative action, feminism, diversity, environmentalism, liberation, progressivism, liberalism, social justice, correctness, tolerance, freedom from religion, national security, etc. ~ Don Koenig

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“But I’m afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States. I’m saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime. Well this is Obama’s deal, and it’s Obama that’s responsible for this fear in America. The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution, and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest or holding too much money. We haven’t heard this kind of talk except from pure socialists” ~ Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn, a Democrat

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. ~Dr. Thomas Sowell

O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
~T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock

The Declaration of Independence offers the opportunity to pursue happiness. It does not guarantee it, nor does it suggest that it is government's job to provide it. ~ Alan Caruba

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. ~ Charles Krauthammer

"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" ~ Plato

“But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come,” ~(2 Timothy 3:1).

We are in dark days. Very dark days. But God has not stopped working, nor has He stopped saving those who come to Him. Be prepared for opportunities to spread the gospel. Always be ready to bring Him glory! ~Dr. Fred DeRuvo

"The claim that we have to human rights and dignity does not come--as some folks in the ACLU want us to believe--from the Bill of Rights, and it doesn't come from the Constitution, and it doesn't come from the laws passed by the Congress, and it doesn't come from the decisions that are taken by the Supreme Court. That claim to human dignity and human rights, which is the foundation of our whole way of life, rests on the power and the will, the existence and the authority of Almighty God, not on any human foundation." ~ Alan Keyes
Renew America rally in Alabama, April 29, 2000

The military has one task—to break things and kill the enemy until such time that it no longer wants to fight. Turning the U.S. military into a combination of war machine and social service provider defies common sense and the history of wars. ~Alan Caruba

“Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty, discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.”… THOMAS SOWELL

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Those of us who are people of faith--those of us who lift our hearts up to Almighty God, and seek to do and surrender to His will--we need stop acting as if our faith is un-American! Our faith is the bedrock principle on which this nation is grounded!" ~ Alan Keyes
Urban Family Council, 1998

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. ~ George Washington

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am” - John Newton

Not incidentally, the mark of the freeman is the right and the duty to bear arms (sometimes literal and sometimes symbolic) In other words; being a citizen in this society carries with it the duty to defend it. This is the origin of the Militia in the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution. ~ (Nebraska Energy Observer)

And, finally, this warning from the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclac Klaus: “They hate us, the humans, they consider us selfish and sinful creatures who must be controlled by them. I used to live in a similar world—called communism—and I know that it led to the worst environmental damage the world has ever experienced.”

"Some people like to suggest that I’m suggesting that atheists can’t be Americans. That’s not true. As a matter of fact, I often try to remind people, you can live in America without believing in God because America believes in God. That’s the root of our respect for individual rights and freedom." ~ Alan Keyes
Christian prayer service in Michigan, July 9, 1996

May Christianity rule and Churchianity be cast to the moles and to the bats. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

This is why I said I am done with identifying myself with groups or partisanship. People will use you or applaud you only as long as they think you serve their agenda. But many times, they don't respect your liberty if they cannot control it. I have learned this to be true on both sides of the political aisle. ~ Stacy Swimp

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression."- Malcolm X

President Reagan warned of freedom lost:

“We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States, where men were free.”

“Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

“If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievment is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don't have to work for it and now you're on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggreivement and entitlement, and you still won't have a job.” ~ Condaleeza Rice

Becky Gerritson of Wetumpka Tea Party before the House Ways and Means Committee said:
“We are patriotic Americans. We peacefully assemble. We petition our government. We exercise our right to free speech and we don’t understand why our government tried to stop us. We aren’t here as serfs or vassals. We’re not begging our lords for mercy. We are born free American citizens and we’re telling our government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your responsibility to look out for our well being and monitor our speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. The post that you occupy exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty and you have faltered.”

"All through the New Testament the Spirit of God has foretold that we are going to have the worship of man installed, and it is in our midst today." - Oswald Chambers

One need hardly be a constitutional scholar to understand that a federal government that can require you to purchase something you do not want or do not need can require you to do anything it wants. A government that powerful is a government to be feared. ~ Alan Caruba

“Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the State.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

Isaiah 41:10

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

"Most Americans are unaware of a decline in individual liberty, and the reason is obvious: the decline rarely takes the form of sudden personal deprivations but, instead, takes the form of unnoticed erosion and, thus, we come to regard whatever state we are in as a normal condition." Leonard E. Read

"A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: 'An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

On January 13, 1947, U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall stated:
“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights…The time is come to hear about responsibilities…
America’s future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God’s government.”

In 1787, George Mason, one of the largest plantation owners in Virginia, stated his views on national accountability before the Constitutional Convention:
"As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."
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